The Chicago Schoolhouse: High School Architecture and Educational Reform, 1856-2006 (Center for American Places - Center Books on Chicago and Environs)
By Dale Allen Gyure.
Description
School buildings are vitally important in American lives, yet largely invisible in the landscape of architectural studies. The schoolhouse’s significance cannot be overestimated in a country where education is not only compulsory, but is also an integral part of the national self-image. Between the ages of five and eighteen, the average American child spends more time in a school building than in any other single place outside the home. With The Chicago Schoolhouse Dale Gyure fills a void in the architectural and educational records by examining the physical structures where formal ed...
ISBN(s)
1935195190, 9781935195191
